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Video: Mountain jump goes wrong

OSLO, Norway — A Norwegian BASE jumper said he learned a hard lesson about tempting fate after surviving a spine-chilling crash from a mile-high mountain.

Video captured by a camera attached to Hans Lange's specially designed jump suit showed him struggling to straighten out his parachute before slamming into a rock wall and crashing into a tree top. He survived with a broken leg.

"I was too nonchalant and there is no room for mistakes in this sport," Lange, 44, told The Associated Press on Thursday.

The accident happened Aug. 23, as the experienced BASE jumper leapt off the 5,250-foot-high Bjoerketind peak.

Lange said he was flying down the mountainside at nearly 110 mph when he realized he was too close to the wall.

He deployed his chute and tried to steer away from the wall, but it was too late. The video showed Lange crying out in pain as he bumped into the rock repeatedly while trying to untangle the chords.

The fall came to an abrupt end when he slammed into a tree about 330 feet above the planned landing site.